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Airbus overtook Boeing in unadjusted aircraft orders for this year after last month's Farnborough Airshow but continued to lag behind its US rival when accounting for cancellations, company data showed yesterday.
The Airbus Group pl

European planemaker Airbus will revamp its A330 wide-body passenger jet in order to boost its range, it said at the Farnborough Airshow on Monday.
Industry sources told Reuters earlier on Monday that Airbus would announce a partial redesi

Qatar Airways, the national flag carrier, will fly its first Dreamliner in a never-seen-before public flying display at Farnborough International Air Show starting today (July 9).
The Boeing 787 is scheduled to participate in a hallmark fe

The US government is eyeing the UAE among the possible initial foreign buyers of the V-22 Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft built by Boeing Company and Bell Helicopter, a top US Marine Corps official told Reuters.
The other potential buyers in

Pilots representing the Russian Air Force touched down in Bahrain yesterday (January 16) as preparations for a major air show continued at full throttle.
Known as the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights), the aerobatic demonstration team is

The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) awarded a contract to Raytheon at Farnborough Air Show to provide the integrated electronic warfare suite, ACES, for its fleet of F-16 aircraft.
The ACES system will provide self-protection capabilities to EAF&

BAE Systems, is a global defence, security and aerospace company, has developed a counterintuitive liquid which hardens when struck offering soldiers greater ballistics protection and ease of movement in combat situations.
The technology,

Bahrain International Airshow and Farnborough International Limited (FIL) have signed an agreement to formalise their partnership to jointly organise the Bahrain International Airshow from January 19 to 21 in 2012.
The event is target

Air Arabia, the leading low-cost carrier in Mena, has selected the CFM56-5B engine produced by CFM International, a joint venture between Snecma and GE, to power its 44 Airbus A320 family aircraft order announced in 2007.
This new engine s

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner will make its international debut this month when the doors open on the Farnborough International Airshow outside London, said a top company official.
The 787 flight-test airplane, ZA003, will touch down at Farnbo